14 Facts About Danese Cooper

Danese Cooper is an American programmer, computer scientist and advocate of open source software.

Danese Cooper has managed teams at Symantec and Apple Inc For six years, she served as chief open source "evangelist" for Sun Microsystems before leaving to serve as senior director for open source strategies at Intel.

Danese Cooper's is a board member of the Open Source Hardware Association.

Danese Cooper's is a board observer at Mozilla, and serves as a member of the Apache Software Foundation.

Danese Cooper's was a board member at the Drupal Association and the Open Source Initiative.

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In October 2018, Danese Cooper joined Irish tech company NearForm as VP of Special Initiatives.

Danese Cooper's was recruited, while at a sushi bar in Cupertino, to a position at Sun working towards opening the source code to Java.

Danese Cooper's has made public speaking appearances discussing open sourcing, speaking at the Malaysian National Computer Confederation Open Source Compatibility Centre, OSCON, gov2.

In 2005 Danese Cooper was a contributing author to Open Sources 2.

In February 2010 Danese Cooper was appointed Chief Technical Officer of the Wikimedia Foundation, leading their technical team and developing and executing the Foundation's technical strategy, along with which she would be working on outreach with Wikimedia volunteers to expand on development and localizing of software.

Danese Cooper is the founder and chair of the InnerSource Commons Foundation.

In June 2011, Cooper started a consultancy, daneseWorks, whose first client was inBloom.

Danese Cooper obtained her high school diploma from Chadwick School and her B A from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Danese Cooper's is married to a software developer and enjoys knitting, which she often engages in during meetings.